Electric-light socket.



NORDEN.

ELECTRIC LIGHT SOGKBT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1908.

912,720, Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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MORTHZIER NORDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGXOR OF ONE-HALF 'l'O HIMSELF AND HALF TO SlLAS lll-lINEMAN, OF KEY." XOBK, N. Y

ELECTRIC-LIGHT SOCIiET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Mon'rinnn Noxious a citizen of the United States, rcsiding 'in the borough of Manhattan, city. county, and Stateof New York, have invented an improven' entin Electric-Light Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sockets for electric light or lamp bulbs and particularly to that 'both for illuminating,

type of lanip-sockets adapted to be sup ported by circuit wires and to be employed or'elcctric sign, display, or advertising purposes, and the object of my present invention is the provision oi":

electric light bulb sockets to be supported lamp terminals corresponding in number with the number of the said scrmwsockets and electrical COIlIlOL'l'lOllS between all the said lamp terminals and the other circuit ,wire terminal, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing, Figure l. is a side elevation of the electric light socket/:omprising my present invention. Fig. 9 is a central section through the same. Fig. 8 is a section on line '00, a, Fig. 2 showing the parts turned 180 degrees from the position indicated in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 3 7 Fig. 2.

In the drawing 10 indicates the body member of the electric light socket compris ing my present invention which part is preterably made of porcelain or any other simi- 'larand equally good insulating material,

and this body member 10 may be made elliptical or of any other form which may be desired.

In the opposite sides thereof the body member 10 is provided with recesses 11 and 12. These recesses ll and 12 are preferably in alinement with one another and scparated by a central partition indicated at 13. i

The partition 13 centrally is provided with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 18, 1908. Serial No. 44,255.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

raised meml'iers .l-ll- 13 extending respectively into the reces cs lland l2. -l screw socket to is titted intothe rece s ll'and a milar screw-socket 17 is titted iiito the recess 12.

in one side thereof and preferably at right angles totlic screw-sockets and'on one side of the partition lilthe body member it) is provided with an aperture lb" through which the circuit wire terminal 32 is pas ed and on tlze opposite side of the body member and on the other side of the partition 13 there is a similar aperture 19 adapted toreceire. the circuit. wire terminal 2?.

The outerend oi. the circuit wire terminal 22 is adapted to lie against a flattened por-J:

tion 20 of the body member 10 and similarly the outer end of the circuit wire terminal 27 is adapted to lie against the tlattened portion 21 on the opposite side of the body member 10, and the terminal 22 is connected to a circuit wire 23 by means of a binding screw El, and similarly the circuit wire 28 is connected to thetcrminal 27 by a binding screw by means of which as will be up parent the socket and the lamps contained therein are supported in any desired posi tion whether the circuit wires run horizontally, vertically or at any angle between a horizontal and vertical position.

The inner end ofthe circuit wire terminal 1'22 lies against the surface of the raised portion to within the recess 12, and

passing centrally through this raised portion. and also through the raised portion l-t in the recess ll is a screw 25 the head of which engages a washer 2b within the screw socket; ltS .tormiug the lamp terminal for the light bulb within said socket 115, whereas the inner end of the terminal performs a similar function for the lamp bulb secured in the scrmwsockct 17.

3t) iinlicates a U-shaped connector member placed within the recess 1.2 and electrically connected to both the screw socket l? and the screw socket lti by means of screws 3.1 which pass through both of the said sci-(jaw sockets and through the central partition 13 and this U-shapcd connector mcmber 30 is also electrically connected to the circuit wire terminal It by means of the screw 53'. which also passes through the partition l5} and the said circuit wire terminal ill and the U- shaped connector 2&0.

I claim as .ny invention:

1. In an electric lamp sorlrt and in comloo toil

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bination, a body member having oppositely disposed 'recesses in alinement with one another, a central division Wall with raised portions extending therefrom into each of the said recesses, screw sockets secured in the said recesses, a circuit wire terminal extending through the said body member at-right {angles to the said screw sockets and into one ofthe' said recesses, a screw passing centrally through'the said raised portions of the said partition and securing the said terminal in position and electrically connecting the same with a lamp terminal in the other recess, a second vcircuit wire terminalv extending through the opposite side of the said body member and means for electrically connecting thesaid second circuit wire terminal to both the said screw sockets.

2. In an electric lamp socket and in combination, a body member having oppositely disposed recesses in alinement with one another, a central division wallv with raised portions extending therefrom into each of the said recesses, screw sockets secured in the recess, a second circuit wire terminal ex- 1 tending through the opposite side of the said body member, a connector member, screws passing xthrough the same and through the-saidpartition to electrically connect the said screw socket members, and

a screw for securing together and electrically connecting the said connector memher and the said-second circuit Wire terminal.

Signed by me this first day of July 1908.

MORTIMER NORDEN.

. Witnesses:

I GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

vE. ZACHARIASEN. 

